Well I just noticed that Sonny has a sunburn on his nose and it's scabbing over. I want to put something on it to help heal it up and protect it...but not sure what to put on it.
Our paint gets burned all the time unless we coat his nose with regular human sunscreen. I get 30 or higher and slather it on in the morning. I've heard Desitin for babies works really well too.
One of our farriers said that covering sunburned noses in Swat helps the skin heal quickly, but I haven't had the chance to try it.
To prevent my mare from getting sunburned, I use a cheap brand of 50 SPF baby sunscreen. We both use it. It's best to get the kind that is sweat and water resistant. I've been putting it on her pretty much every day this summer, but every other day usually works fine.
There's also a type of sunscreen that's made specially for horses, but I forget its name... :P
Yep I'm gonna agree with the other 2 here. My girl gets burnt on her nose, & I just go out & buy the cheapo baby sunblock! SPF 30 or higher. Helps & smells good!!
Like other people have said, there is sunscreen you can buy, you can use normal or special ones made for horses. You won't believe it but there is now fluro horse sun screen that you can put on your horse's nose! Like yellow, green and pink!
Alas, my horsie has the same problem! I constantly find scabbies on her nose. For a little while I was using Ihle's Paste (zinc), and now I'm just slathering her nose in regular 30 SPF human sunscreen.
would I have to worry about it coming off in the water when he's drinking or anything?
I'll definately try it!
I've been putting swat on it, so we'll see how that is working. I mainly put SWAT on it because the bugs kept getting to his nose and breaking the skin
I've got two that get really bad sunburns.
As above, just regular suntan block. At night, if it gets worse and starts to scab, I'll put on some Aloe Vera gel to help soothe it and heals up within a day or two.
I cover my horses noses with Wal Mart's brand of diaper rash cream. When I'm done, you can't see any of the skin :P
The reason it works is the 10% zinc oxide it contains, which is the same as the more expensive Desitin brand.
A couple of my horses have pink areas on their upper and lower lips. I cover those areas too. They may lick their chops and get some off but it hasn't hurt anyone.
You can also buy 20% pure zinc oxide at WalMart. It comes in a red & white box and is back in the pharmacy area. I can't remember if I bought it in the foot care area or the baby care area It also stays on good, but I mix it with diaper rash cream because there's something in the diaper rash cream that makes it a lot more water repellant.
I have a friend whose APHA is pink-skinned on his entire face. She was using a high SPF sunscreen and was putting it on as thick as I put the diaper rash cream on.
She ended up having to have the vet come because the horse's pores got blocked from the sunscreen. The vet told her to use diaper rash cream so that wouldn't happen.
I am not saying that is going to happen to every horse; just wanted to post it as an FYI
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